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The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Humorist
Journalist
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
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it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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